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Why is it easier to assent than to dissent but harder to ascend than to descend ? Is it really true that if you decide to be `bad forever,' you have chosen to be bad for good , and if you are wearing only your right shoe, your right one is left.
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Confusions between the identical sounding to and two almost led to a mid-air collision, when a pilot misheard Climb to five zero as Climb two five zero, putting him on a collision course with another aircraft that was just fifteen hundred feet above him; it did lead to a fatal accident, when a pilot, in another incident, read back the instruction Descend two four zero zero as O.K. Four zero zero and then proceeded, without correction from the controller, to descend to four hundred, rather than twenty-four hundred feet.
He has put his own suffering--as a boy he saw a Nazi kill his mother--into short narratives of self-absorbed Jewish life before the war that are so ominously toneless, artfully simple and repetitious, deceptively compressed in feeling, that the reader, aware of the horror about to descend on these people, feels like screaming but knows he will not be heard.
A series of fishing competitions make up a “season” for the rich, bright, and beautiful, who descend to fish during the day and enjoy the lively social scene after dark.